{"id":31556,"date":"2026-07-10T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=31556"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T16:10:47","slug":"ona-decries-tsunami-of-cuts-at-major-ontario-hospitals-including-lhsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ona-decries-tsunami-of-cuts-at-major-ontario-hospitals-including-lhsc\/","title":{"rendered":"ONA decries \u2018tsunami\u2019 of cuts at major Ontario hospitals, including LHSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(July 9, 2026) By: Bryan Bicknell, CTV News<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) is sounding the alarm over what it describes as a \u201ctsunami\u201d of new cuts at hospitals across the province, \u201cleaving patients in a number of communities with less care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The association says it has received notice of hundreds of cuts of registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and other health care professionals across the province. The cuts are at long term care homes, and some of the largest urban hospitals in Ontario, including London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), where the ONA says 288 nursing cuts were announced this past March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAnd by eliminating registered nurses from these workplaces, from these hospitals, they are not going to see an improvement in patient care. They\u2019re not going to see an improvement in patient safety. They\u2019re going to see the opposite,\u201d said ONA president and RN Erin Ariss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Ariss, nurses at LHSC filed 269 workload complaint forms in the first six months of this year, compared to 140 in all of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSo what that means, is quite possibly, medications can be delayed. Assessments could be delayed. Patients will not be up and mobile as they once were because the nurses are not there,\u201d Ariss explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peter Bergmanis, who represents the London chapter of the Ontario Health Coalition, said the provincial government continues to dismantle public health care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019re Americanizing our entire public health care system. Transferring a lot of public dollars. $300 million in the latest round. And meanwhile, strangulating our hospitals for resources. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening. They\u2019re losing staff,\u201d Bergmanis stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement to CTV News, Lily Barnes, spokesperson for Health Minister Sylvia Jones, called the ONA claims \u201cmisguided,\u201d saying that the government has added more than 100,000 new nurses since 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The statement also said at LHSC,<i> \u201cW<\/i>e have increased our investment by over 50 per cent since 2018. This funding is in addition to the hospital expansion projects that are underway in London.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The statement also pointed out that hospitals are independent corporations, responsible for their own day to day operations, including human resource matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bergmanis doesn\u2019t buy it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis little blame-game that the Ford administration is playing is ridiculous. They\u2019re the ones that hold the purse strings. The hospitals can only implement what monies they actually have been given,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, in a statement to CTV News, LHSC said there are no new layoffs at the hospital. Rather, as previously announced, a reduction of 184 full-time equivalent staff <a title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/london\/article\/288-registered-nursing-positions-to-be-cut-at-lhsc\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/london\/article\/288-registered-nursing-positions-to-be-cut-at-lhsc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">through attrition, taking place over the next three years<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/london\/article\/ona-decries-tsunami-of-cuts-at-major-ontario-hospitals-including-lhsc\/\">Click here for the original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(July 9, 2026) By: Bryan Bicknell, CTV News The Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) is sounding the alarm over what it describes as a \u201ctsunami\u201d of new cuts at hospitals across the province, \u201cleaving patients in a number of communities with less care.\u201d The association says it has received notice of hundreds of cuts of registered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohc-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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